2009年3月5日 13:47 Copenhagen - December 2009 - need a new global climate deal! (10 条评论)
- Debbie
- 45, 美国
Copenhagen - December 2009 - need a new global climate deal!
Copenhagen - December 2009
Decision time: we need a new global climate deal!
Take action now
We need your help to show our leaders that we must now grasp the opportunities that serious action against climate change holds for us.
Copenhagen is a pivotal moment in world history - never has there been a greater chance to get things right.
We can yet avoid a global catastrophe of dimensions that are unheard of, but we can also learn the decisive lessons of how to manage this planet.
This is why the U.N. conference at Copenhagen in December 2009 is the most crucial political arena regarding climage change: it will be there that each country in the international community will come together to agree on a new global climate deal that will replace the Kyoto protocol and define how we deal with climate change in the future.
What we need is a fair, effective, and science-based climate deal in Copenhagen.
But Copenhagen could also go wrong.
And this is why we need your help to show our world leaders that we must now grasp the opportunities that serious action against climate change holds for us. Instead of being held by shortsighted concerns, we must come together around the common goal of fighting climate change.
We have most of the scientific know-how, and the technology. The U.N. conference in Copenhagen is where we will have the chance to show that we also have the political decisiveness to fight climate change.
The decisions made there will shape what planet the next generations will inherit. For their sake and ours, world leaders need to get it right in Copenhagen.
The moment when the planet stops breathing...
Global temperatures are rising, due to emissions from the richer half of the world's population.
In the wake of the recent financial meltdown, there are parallels to be found in the world's mismanagement of nature and the credit crisis that has metastasized into a global recession.
Both situations teach us there's only so much debt that can be incurred before there are catastrophic consequences. But when nature goes bankrupt, there won't be anyone who can bail us out.
Decision time: we need a new global climate deal!
Take action now
We need your help to show our leaders that we must now grasp the opportunities that serious action against climate change holds for us.
Copenhagen is a pivotal moment in world history - never has there been a greater chance to get things right.
We can yet avoid a global catastrophe of dimensions that are unheard of, but we can also learn the decisive lessons of how to manage this planet.
This is why the U.N. conference at Copenhagen in December 2009 is the most crucial political arena regarding climage change: it will be there that each country in the international community will come together to agree on a new global climate deal that will replace the Kyoto protocol and define how we deal with climate change in the future.
What we need is a fair, effective, and science-based climate deal in Copenhagen.
But Copenhagen could also go wrong.
And this is why we need your help to show our world leaders that we must now grasp the opportunities that serious action against climate change holds for us. Instead of being held by shortsighted concerns, we must come together around the common goal of fighting climate change.
We have most of the scientific know-how, and the technology. The U.N. conference in Copenhagen is where we will have the chance to show that we also have the political decisiveness to fight climate change.
The decisions made there will shape what planet the next generations will inherit. For their sake and ours, world leaders need to get it right in Copenhagen.
The moment when the planet stops breathing...
Global temperatures are rising, due to emissions from the richer half of the world's population.
In the wake of the recent financial meltdown, there are parallels to be found in the world's mismanagement of nature and the credit crisis that has metastasized into a global recession.
Both situations teach us there's only so much debt that can be incurred before there are catastrophic consequences. But when nature goes bankrupt, there won't be anyone who can bail us out.
2009年4月8日 5:2Re: Re: What should a new Global Climate Deal look like?
What should a new Global Climate Deal look like?
We need to agree how to fight climate change
The world is in trouble: an economic crisis has hit, and climate change impacts threaten to unbalance the very basis of human society.
The Copenhagen Climate Deal is essential for finding the way out of trouble. This Treaty can help to lead our world towards a clean energy economy, offering massive new economic opportunities while drastically reducing emissions.
The Treaty can also improve the relationship between the poorest and the richest countries. It must enable poor countries to avert the impacts of climate change.
Our leaders need to agree a just, effective and science-based Copenhagen Climate Treaty. The world is watching!
The decisions of the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen will shape how we deal with climate change in the future.
The deal will require:
a climate treaty that is binding, equitable and with strong environmental components to achieve significant greenhouse gas emission reductions
carbon markets to serve reduction obligations of industrialized countries
extended technology transfer, trade and investment to assist developing countries and to pave the way to low-carbon development
WWF is working with many partners - civil society groups, governments, communities and the private sector - to achieve a global climate agreement in Copenhagen that is just, effective, and science-based
http://assets.panda.org/downloads/copenhagen_expectations_paper__wwf.pdf
We need to agree how to fight climate change
The world is in trouble: an economic crisis has hit, and climate change impacts threaten to unbalance the very basis of human society.
The Copenhagen Climate Deal is essential for finding the way out of trouble. This Treaty can help to lead our world towards a clean energy economy, offering massive new economic opportunities while drastically reducing emissions.
The Treaty can also improve the relationship between the poorest and the richest countries. It must enable poor countries to avert the impacts of climate change.
Our leaders need to agree a just, effective and science-based Copenhagen Climate Treaty. The world is watching!
The decisions of the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen will shape how we deal with climate change in the future.
The deal will require:
a climate treaty that is binding, equitable and with strong environmental components to achieve significant greenhouse gas emission reductions
carbon markets to serve reduction obligations of industrialized countries
extended technology transfer, trade and investment to assist developing countries and to pave the way to low-carbon development
WWF is working with many partners - civil society groups, governments, communities and the private sector - to achieve a global climate agreement in Copenhagen that is just, effective, and science-based
http://assets.panda.org/downloads/copenhagen_expectations_paper__wwf.pdf
2009年6月8日 17:28Re: Copenhagen - December 2009 - need a new global climate deal!
bertil
32, Toulon, 法国
For sure!
Some beautifull pictures and discussions to realize that we had to do something. It's for free on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqxENMKaeCU
By Yann Arthus Bertrand
Some beautifull pictures and discussions to realize that we had to do something. It's for free on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqxENMKaeCU
By Yann Arthus Bertrand
2009年8月23日 19:15Re: Re: Re: Copenhagen - December 2009 - need a new global clima
2009年9月12日 4:30Re: Copenhagen - December 2009 - Vote Earth !
This December world leaders meet in Copenhagen to decide how we deal with climate change. What sort of future would you have them choose -
Earth or Global Warming?
Show your VOTE FOR EARTH!
Put yourself on the map and upload your photos, pictures and weblinks so we know what you're up to, wherever you are on the planet.
http://www.earthhour.org/
Earth or Global Warming?
Show your VOTE FOR EARTH!
Put yourself on the map and upload your photos, pictures and weblinks so we know what you're up to, wherever you are on the planet.
http://www.earthhour.org/
2009年12月9日 4:49Re: Copenhagen - December 2009 - need a new global climate deal!
You may like to see my two videos
http://www.zorpia.com/philcovers/video/223620/Climate_Change_march_with_words_from_Thom_Yorke
http://www.zorpia.com/philcovers/video/223256/Climate_Change_march_Plus_Speeches_2009
I hope all friends will watch at least one of these two videos I made on Saturday Dec 5th
It was so exciting being there, and taking part in one of the biggest marches of its kind.
It was a long day, and a long walk!
*SMILES*
Please comment & vote for the videos in my videos, rather than here. thanks MUCH appreciated bhut comments here as well are also welcome, but voting and commenting at the video site helps promote the video, which to me is very important
THANKS
*SMILES*
http://www.zorpia.com/philcovers/video/223620/Climate_Change_march_with_words_from_Thom_Yorke
http://www.zorpia.com/philcovers/video/223256/Climate_Change_march_Plus_Speeches_2009
I hope all friends will watch at least one of these two videos I made on Saturday Dec 5th
It was so exciting being there, and taking part in one of the biggest marches of its kind.
It was a long day, and a long walk!
*SMILES*
Please comment & vote for the videos in my videos, rather than here. thanks MUCH appreciated bhut comments here as well are also welcome, but voting and commenting at the video site helps promote the video, which to me is very important
THANKS
*SMILES*
2010年1月29日 16:42Re: Re:
December 19, 2009
The UN climate talks in Copenhagen were inches away from total failure and ended with an outcome far too weak to tackle dangerous climate change, WWF said today."Well meant but half-hearted pledges to protect our planet from dangerous climate change are simply not sufficient to address a crisis that calls for completely new ways of collaboration across rich and poor countries," said Kim Carstensen, Leader of WWF's Global Climate Initiative. "Millions of lives, hundreds of billions of dollars and a wealth of lost opportunities lie in the difference between rhetoric and reality on climate change action."
Politicians around the world seem to be in agreement that we must stay below the 2 degree C threshold of unacceptable risks of climate change - in theory. However, practically what leaders have put on the table adds up to 3 degrees C of warming or more, according to WWF estimates.
The Canadian government has said that it is following the US lead on climate. Yet while President Obama is saying there is much more to be done, Prime Minister Harper has stated he is "very comfortable" with the limited outcome from Copenhagen.
"As President of the G8 and co-host of the G20 meetings next year, Canadians expect our government to help broker a deal that will keep global warming well below the 2 degree limit identified by scientists as the danger zone," said Gerald Butts, President and CEO of WWF-Canada. "Canada's international credibility on climate rests in putting forward a credible plan to significantly reduce emissions here at home."
Attention will now shift to follow up negotiations which need to fill out many details in the often vague accord - and, on a more positive note, to a host of initiatives by countries, cities, companies and communities that are starting to build low carbon economies from the base up.
WWF analysed the conference outcome against a 10 element scorecard, finding that none of the objectives needed to fulfil the political aim of keeping average global warming below the widely agreed 2 degree C high risk level had been met, although some had been partly fulfilled.
The draft Copenhagen Accord is a long way from developing into a legally binding framework for decisive action on climate change. "We needed a treaty now and at best, we will be working on one in half a year's time," said Carstensen.
The lack of clarity is illustrated by a call for a global peak in emissions "as soon as possible", in contrast to the 2007 call of the IPCC for emissions to peak in 2017.
Emissions reductions pledges remain far lower than what is required, with a leaked analysis by the UNFCCC secretariat showing a shortfall that would lead to 3 degrees C of warming even without considering extensive loopholes.
"We are disappointed but the story continues," said Carstensen. "Civil society was excluded from these final negotiations to an extraordinary degree, and that was felt during the concluding days in Copenhagen. We can assure the world, however, that WWF and other elements of civil society will continue engaging in every step of further negotiations."
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The UN climate talks in Copenhagen were inches away from total failure and ended with an outcome far too weak to tackle dangerous climate change, WWF said today."Well meant but half-hearted pledges to protect our planet from dangerous climate change are simply not sufficient to address a crisis that calls for completely new ways of collaboration across rich and poor countries," said Kim Carstensen, Leader of WWF's Global Climate Initiative. "Millions of lives, hundreds of billions of dollars and a wealth of lost opportunities lie in the difference between rhetoric and reality on climate change action."
Politicians around the world seem to be in agreement that we must stay below the 2 degree C threshold of unacceptable risks of climate change - in theory. However, practically what leaders have put on the table adds up to 3 degrees C of warming or more, according to WWF estimates.
The Canadian government has said that it is following the US lead on climate. Yet while President Obama is saying there is much more to be done, Prime Minister Harper has stated he is "very comfortable" with the limited outcome from Copenhagen.
"As President of the G8 and co-host of the G20 meetings next year, Canadians expect our government to help broker a deal that will keep global warming well below the 2 degree limit identified by scientists as the danger zone," said Gerald Butts, President and CEO of WWF-Canada. "Canada's international credibility on climate rests in putting forward a credible plan to significantly reduce emissions here at home."
Attention will now shift to follow up negotiations which need to fill out many details in the often vague accord - and, on a more positive note, to a host of initiatives by countries, cities, companies and communities that are starting to build low carbon economies from the base up.
WWF analysed the conference outcome against a 10 element scorecard, finding that none of the objectives needed to fulfil the political aim of keeping average global warming below the widely agreed 2 degree C high risk level had been met, although some had been partly fulfilled.
The draft Copenhagen Accord is a long way from developing into a legally binding framework for decisive action on climate change. "We needed a treaty now and at best, we will be working on one in half a year's time," said Carstensen.
The lack of clarity is illustrated by a call for a global peak in emissions "as soon as possible", in contrast to the 2007 call of the IPCC for emissions to peak in 2017.
Emissions reductions pledges remain far lower than what is required, with a leaked analysis by the UNFCCC secretariat showing a shortfall that would lead to 3 degrees C of warming even without considering extensive loopholes.
"We are disappointed but the story continues," said Carstensen. "Civil society was excluded from these final negotiations to an extraordinary degree, and that was felt during the concluding days in Copenhagen. We can assure the world, however, that WWF and other elements of civil society will continue engaging in every step of further negotiations."
Other Online Resources:
Central press information page:
http://panda.org/cop15/media
Free broadcast-quality video footage and content for media use: http://insidecop15.panda.org
Policy and background information: http://panda.org/cop15/policy
2010年1月29日 16:47Re: Copenhagen - December 2009 - need a new global climate deal!
More detail on the Copenhagen Accord, how it might lead to a binding international climate agreement, the shortfalls between emissions reductions commitments to date and what is needed to keep below the two degree danger limit can be found in
The Copenhagen Accord: A Stepping Stone? which can be found at
http://assets.panda.org/downloads/the_stepping_stone_final_280110.pdf
DownloadThe Copenhagen Accord: A Stepping Stone? [pdf, 118 KB]
The Copenhagen Accord: A Stepping Stone? which can be found at
http://assets.panda.org/downloads/the_stepping_stone_final_280110.pdf
DownloadThe Copenhagen Accord: A Stepping Stone? [pdf, 118 KB]
2009年3月5日 13:53Re: Copenhagen - December 2009- The world is watching
2009 will be a crucial year in the fight against climate change, leading up to the UN conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, in December.
It will be here that world leaders will come together to agree on a new global climate deal that will replace the Kyoto protocol, and define how we deal with climate change in the future.
We need your help to show our leaders that we must now grasp the opportunities that serious action against climate change holds for us.
Upload a photo of your eyes and show them that the world is watching.
WWF will use the images collected at all the meetings in the run up to Copenhagen, and at the big event itself. The more photos we have the more powerful our voice will be.
Please use this link below to send your photos
http://www.panda.org/how_you_can_help/campaign/world_is_watching/